Oak Ridge spawns institute to curb AI datacenter power surge

Dan Robinson, Theregister.com

Lab aims to link power, cooling, and workload management to ease strain on the US grid Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is hoping to turn its technical expertise to the problem of growing electricity demand from AI datacenters.…

Trump U-turn: Is Venezuelan oil really available to Cuba again?

Shola Lawal, Al Jazeera English

The US says it will licence entities to sell the oil to Cuba except those linked to the Cuban government and military.

Building the Electrostate

Sandeep Vaheesan, The New York Review of Books

In the United States today, officials at all levels of government generally act as if private enterprise is the only way to provide goods and services. Yet a bastion of public ownership survives: more than a quarter of electricity customers—including the resi…

Why farmers in California are backing a giant solar farm

Dan Charles, NPR

Many farmers have had to fallow land as a state law comes into effect limiting their access to water. There's now a push to develop some of that land… into solar farms.

Trump wants Big Tech to build its own power plants. That's already starting to happen.

Ellen Thomas, Business Insider

President Donald Trump urged tech giants to create their own power sources for data centers. Big Tech is already shifting to private energy solutions.

Nuclear Energy Isn’t Scary Anymore. It’s Just Crypto-Coded

Mike Pearl, Gizmodo.com

Politico profiled a bizarre energy company that may receive billions from the Trump administration to make small modular reactors. Will it actually make them though?

Tax credits for solar panels are available, but the catch is you can't own them

Jeff Brady, NPR

Rooftop solar installers are steering customers toward leases instead of purchases. Federal tax credits for purchased systems have ended but are still available for leased ones.

Trump tells tech giants to power their own AI ambitions

Kelsey Vlamis, Business Insider

President Donald Trump said he's told top tech companies to pay more for electricity near data centers but didn't provide details.

The US Had a Big Battery Boom Last Year

msmash, Slashdot.org

The United States installed a record 57 gigawatt hours of new battery storage on its electric grids in 2025, a nearly 30% increase over the prior year that arrived even as the Trump administration cut tax credits for wind and solar in last summer's One Big Be…

America's hottest NIMBY issue: Data centers

Amanda Hoover, Business Insider

As politicians can't ignore data centers anymore, everyone from Bernie Sanders to Ron DeSantis is turning against them.

Cultural Architects, Trojan Horses, And Another EV Startup To Challenge Tesla

Tina Casey, CleanTechnica

The US startup 1854 Motors aims to be the first domestic automaker to introduce sodium-ion batteries in a full sized EV, beginning with the Pierce pickup truck. The post Cultural Architects, Trojan Horses, And Another EV Startup To Challenge Tesla appeared fi…

Oil prices surge ahead of possible US attack on Iran

Max Zahn, Abcnews.com

The U.S. has carried out a major military buildup in the Middle East.

California, Colorado and Washington sue Trump administration to unlock funding for clean energy projects

Reuters, Yahoo Entertainment

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 18 (Reuters) - California, Colorado and Washington are suing the federal government to force it to pay out grants approved by Congress for...

‘Playing Checkers’: Trump’s Bid to Revive Coal Is Nonsensical

Ryan Bort, Rolling Stone

Donald Trump ordered the Department of Defense to purchase coal energy. Experts say the move doesn't make sense, economically or otherwise.

Indonesia tightens control on nickel as the US and China scramble for critical minerals

ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and ANTON L. DELGADO, Yahoo Entertainment

Indonesia is tightening state control over the world’s largest nickel supply after years of betting the metal would anchor a homegrown electric-vehicle...

Trump slams energy deal between California and Britain, Politico reports

Yahoo Entertainment

Iran says potential energy, mining and aircraft deals on table in talks with US

Internazionale, Internazionale.it

Feb 15 (Reuters) - Iran is pursuing a nuclear agreement with the U.S. that delivers economic benefits for both sides, an Iranian diplomat was reported as saying on Sunday… Leggi

New Energy Storage Solutions Are Killing Trump’s Coal Power Fantasy

Tina Casey, CleanTechnica

The greedy, grasping, living cartoon of a Scrooge who currently occupies the White House is leveraging coal power to support his plans for killing as many Americans as possible. Hopefully he will leave office again — peacefully, this time — before doing much …

Offshore wind showed up big during the East Coast’s brutal cold

Maria Gallucci, Canarymedia.com

America’s two utility-scale offshore wind farms performed as well as gas power plants and better than coal in January — including during Winter Storm Fern.

Start-stop stiffed: EPA kills annoying automatic engine shutoff

Lauren Fix, TheBlaze

The EPA just delivered news that millions of fed-up American drivers have been waiting for: Automatic start-stop technology is no longer being propped up by federal regulation.On February 12, 2026, President Donald Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin annou…

Fire at Havana oil refinery as Cuba’s fuel crisis deepens

David D. Lee, Al Jazeera English

A fire at a key fuel refinery in the capital comes amid Cuba's mounting fuel emergency due to US-imposed restrictions.

Analysis-Trump EPA ends emissions limits for US automakers; state rules, lawsuits could follow

By Valerie Volcovici, Yahoo Entertainment

By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's repeal of the foundation for federal climate regulation will immediately free...

Trump Wins Another Fake Award—but He Actually Deserves This One

Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic

Last month, Energy Secretary Chris Wright convened the National Coal Council for the first time since the organization was disbanded under President Biden. He extolled the administration’s work forcing aging coal plants to stay open, and hinted at further han…

Exclusive-India's Reliance wins US licence for Venezuelan oil, sources say

By Nidhi Verma and Jarrett Renshaw, Yahoo Entertainment

By Nidhi Verma and Jarrett Renshaw NEW DELHI/WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - The United States has issued a general licence to India's Reliance Industries Ltd...